The UN Security Council resolution demanding a halt to the fighting in Sudan, even for a short period during Ramadan, came in support of numerous calls, decisions, and communications. The truce remains at stake, waiting for it to be declared by one of the two parties to the war.
Al Jazeera Net reveals the backgrounds of the decision, its effects, and the possibility of its success, surveying the opinions of diplomatic sources and others in the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry anticipated the resolution by agreeing to the flow of humanitarian aid through Chad.